We are GIG
Written by Mugethi Gitau
GIG is celebrating as we have received confirmation from the European Commission that our project mAkE will receive funding from the Horizon grant programme and we can start implementation in February 2022. This is an amazing opportunity to advance decentralised production systems between African and European makerspaces as mAkE will create a joint ecosystem with … Continue reading “GIG wins mAkE!”
Written by Mugethi Gitau
Re:publica Sessions GIG – DDMP We are excited to announce that this year the Global Innovation Gathering will be hosting a pre-publica programme on May 20th together with the Distributed Design Europe Network. The programme is going to feature makers and innovators from around the world showcasing their work and discussion current topics Whether virtual … Continue reading “Re:publica ’21 Sessions GIG – DDMP”
Written by Mugethi Gitau
Publication discusses the role of art in the crisis (UN)Farm: The End Of The World As We Know is a publication that compiles the thinking of 15 artists, activists and commoners from Brazil around communities, politics, aesthetics and imagination. The Cycle was based on the thoughts of Brazilian artists such as Ailton Krenak, Denise Ferreira … Continue reading “News from Instituto Procomum – May 2021”
Written by Mugethi Gitau
Co-designing Citizen Social Science for Collective ActionCoAct is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. CoAct is proposing a new understanding of Citizen Social Science as participatory research co-designed and directly driven by citizen groups sharing a social concern, in which they become co-researchers in processes commonly dominated by … Continue reading “What is CoAct?”
Written by Mugethi Gitau
Citizen-led data journalism from Brazil’s favelas fills historical information gap: while the favela communities may be ignored by the government, a local organisation, Data Labe, is using the power of data journalism and narrative storytelling to re-write these, often forgotten, histories of the favelas, and the people who call them home. Through this, Data Labe … Continue reading “Citizen-led data journalism from Brazil’s favelas fills historical information gap”
Written by Mugethi Gitau
“Join Global Scale Up X – a new community for female entrepreneurs to connect, be empowered, and scale up!” Founded by MIT D-Lab and Inclusive Business Action Network, Global Scale Up X features inspiring stories from female founders around the world who have successfully raised funding for their business. Learn more on their Instagram
Written by Mugethi Gitau
A pioneering data model has been launched that will enable a consistent way of documenting and sharing information about manufacturing capabilities. “Open Know-Where” will make it easier for anyone to know where they might be able to make anything, by providing a mechanism for the discovery and exchanges of the location of manufacturing capabilities. It … Continue reading “Internet of Production launches Open Know-Where to help share data about manufacturing capabilities online.”
Written by Mugethi Gitau
The #MMN initiative is proud to announce the launch of its new #MMN Migrant Media Network Field Guide kit! In 2019 #MMN developed the first Social Media Hate Speech Mitigation Field Guide, using materials and information gathered during a diaspora training in Berlin. This field guide was then used to facilitate workshops and roundtable discussions … Continue reading “r0g launches the #MMN Migrant Media Network Field Guide”
Written by Mugethi Gitau
In May of this year, Olabi held the second edition of “Aprenda com uma avó”. The project was created in 2020 to be exclusively face-to-face, but its activities were adapted to a 100% digital environment during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a proposal for people over 60 to offer classes on varied knowledge to a wide … Continue reading “Olabi launches a project to empower and engage seniors through technology.”
Written by Ricardo Ruiz
Careables supports all the communities around the world that want to find, share, implement, and create open healthcare solutions that are impactful and inspiring on the local level. After two years of co-creations on health and care, we could find a way to portrait everything on a one minute video. Check it out! Find out … Continue reading “Careables: new video online!”
